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The American soprano, Susan Harwood, obtained her Bachelor of Music degree Voice Performance from New England Conservatory of Music in Boston; her Master of Mausic degree in Voice Performance from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; and her Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance from Peabody Conservatory of Music of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (1997-2002). She is also a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academyin Interlochen, Michigan,
Susan Harwood has sung in church choirs for most of her life. She has performed at the Kennedy Center with Theater Chamber Players, at Bruno Walter Auditorium of Lincoln Center with Largely Ludwig, with Easterly Chamber Players, Concert Artists of Baltimore, Concertante, Trio Lyrica, and the Saint Rose Camerata as a soloist in works of Orlando di Lasso, J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Chausson, Sergei Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, and many other composers. She has also appeared in solo recitals in Knoxville, Dallas, New York and with the York Symphony, Johns Hopkins Symphony, and the Knoxville Chamber Orchestra.
Susan Harwood has enjoyed a career as a teacher of voice and voice related subjects in several institutions of higher learning, and has worked with many singers in master-classes and with young professional singers in voice-intensive training programs. She is currently Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Voice at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York (since August 2002), where she was also a member of the choir at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. |
